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Article: Afghanistan wishes more of you were here.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- August 30, 2006
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Byline: Kim Barker
Aug. 30--KABUL, Afghanistan -- Sabrina Lou knew all the dangers. Insurgents in the south. Land mines in the mountains. Roads where even the potholes have potholes. She read the U.S. State Department warning, which strongly discourages anyone from traveling to Afghanistan and contains a litany of potential threats, from banditry to Al Qaeda.
But Lou, a 5th-grade teacher from Oakland, saw something besides potential violence in this war-torn country--a summer vacation. She stayed in Kabul for 13 days, visiting the bird market, TV mountain, Chicken Street, Butcher Street and Money Street. She watched boys fly kites, wrote a blog about her ...